Disclaimer: I still don't own "The Cat and the Hat" or Inuyasha. I'm
a minor, so I don't think I can really technically own anything yet,
or likewise be sued! Cool! So instead of just saying I own Inuyasha,
I can say I own… Rumiko herself! Bwahahaha! Now she can write all of
my fics for me! Okay, just kidding…whatever. On with the fic
containing characters that I don't own! Yay.
(A/n: Key at bottom for the literal translations of the spells that
Miroku and Kagome use! Thanks!"
Naosu Kokan
The sky rippled above their heads and the barriers of the demon soon
became apparent to reach over a diameter of about a quarter of a
mile.
"That is one big-assed demon" Sango commented before taking out her
boomerang and transforming from
a beautiful woman into a deadly demon slayer.
"Kirara!" Sango yelled and she leapt aboard her also transformed
kitten. Miroku and Kagome weren't going to just sit back and watch,
no sir, these two mere mortals each possessed more than mere mortal
powers. Which was always definitely helpful in a demonic fight.
"Ofuda!" Miroku yelled as he slipped out a demon-fighting scroll from
his leather pouch and threw it at the demon. At the same time Kagome
drew back an arrow and aimed high at the sky. All three weapons:
Sango's boomerang, Miroku's scroll, and Kagome's blessed arrow all
hit the sky at once. The sky shattered, like it was metal hitting
glass; leaving the core of the demon, hanging suspended in the sky
above them. It appeared like the sun, but became darker in its
angered state. The rays from the sun licked angrily and sizzled the
air around it. The rays became more and more visible and less and
less like the real sun's that was just peaking over the horizon
behind the demon.
"DON'T BOTHER WITH THE SKY," the demon laughed softly "IT'S ONLY AN
ILLUSION OF MINE. THE REAL FIGHT, YOU HAVE WITH ME."
"Demon! What business do you have leading us off of our path?" Kagome
asked "I mean, what the heck do you have against us, or where we're
going?"
"THAT'S NONE OF YOUR CONCERN!" he yelled, and threw himself at
Inuyasha!
"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled in warning. Inuyasha looked up (from
probably looking at Sango and Kirara, he'd never seen a woman fight
like that before.) just in time to barely dodge the demon. His hair
sizzled and scorched at the ends and the smell of burnt hair filled
his nose. Inuyasha jumped at the demon and swiped with his claws, but
it was like a ball of fire. The flesh around his claws and all over
his hand began to melt, sizzle and char.
"Huh?" He looked at his hand in confusion. This hadn't seemed like a
particularly strong demon, but impossible to hit.
"Inuyasha, you dumbass," Kagome yelled "use Tetsusaiga!"
"Oh yeah…" Inuyasha blushed slightly and drew his sword. "Burn this,
bastard!" He yelled as he caught the wind on the blade and swung the
sword as hard as he could. The cutting wind passed through the top
half of the gaseous demon and it belched out a hardy laugh.
"IF YOU'RE CLAWS DIDN'T WORK EITHER, HANYOU, WHY DID YOU THINK THAT
YOU'RE RUSTED SWORD WOULD DO ANY BETTER?" the demon laughed again.
"Oh no…" Kagome said, feeling helpless. What were they supposed to
do? She didn't know, but there was no way she was going to sit around
and watch Inu get burnt to a crisp! "Shinsei Makimono!" Kagome yelled
as she jumped through the air and hurled the 'sacred scroll' at the
opposing demon. The scroll flew in its direction, but the demon
dodged it easily. "Damn," Kagome cursed, "I was too far away!" But
now she had found the demon's weakness! "Shippou! Become a bush and
hide me until we get closer to the demon!" Kagome grabbed the kitsune
and pleaded. "The kitsune complied and they crept towards the demon.
It was a good thing no one else seemed to notice…
"Okay! Let's fight fire with fire! Kirara!" Kirara let out a roar and
shot flame at the sun demon from her mouth. The demon just laughed
and absorbed the flames. "Dammit!" Sango yelled in frustration.
Wasn't there anything that was going to kill this demon? Meanwhile,
Inuyasha kept on at trying to cut it to pieces with his Tetsusaiga.
It wasn't working.
"Take that, bitch!" obviously he wasn't sure whether this thing was a
boy or a girl. All he knew was that it was pissing him off.
"ALL RIGHT, I THINK WE'VE HAD ENOUGH PLAY TIME. NOW IT'S TIME TO
FIGHT." The sun belched out. Suddenly, one of the rays of sun
extended and formed into a flaming sword, but without a handle. Its
base just melted into the other rays. It shot out and pierced
Inuyasha in the chest. Inuyasha could hear it rip first his kimono,
then his skin. The bone of his sternum made two sickening cracks as
the sharp fire shot through his chest. Once through, the sword
started to sizzle his skin and lung; the blood stopped flowing so
freely down his kimono as suddenly as it started. Inuyasha looked
down at it dumbly. Nothing had ever done something like this to him
before…
"It's killing him!" Miroku yelled.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome gasped. She knew what she had to do during this
little distraction, and had already started tying the scroll to one
of her arrows. She pulled back the sword and let it fly: strait
towards the center of the demon. "Please work, please work, please
work…" Kagome prayed. No demon could touch that sacred scroll and
live. Thank god she was a Priestess. The arrow flew through the first
half of the demon, but seemed to get lodged in the second half. The
red gaseous part of the demon seemed to disappear and black ball fell
out from the center and hit the ground about a hundred feet from
Kagome with a thud. Inuyasha fell down to the ground and lay there,
eyes closed.
"Inuyasha!" everyone yelled at once. They all ran up to him and
Kagome and Miroku fell to their knees and started taking off the top
of his Kimono. His breath was slow, haggard, and irregular.
"It looks pretty bad," Miroku stated solemnly "but I learned some
healing from my old monk teacher. Sango, I need you to find the
nearest stream and take us there."
"Right on it!" Sango and Kirara jumped to the sky and were soon out
of site looking for the stream. But Kagome was wasting no time in
healing Inuyasha. She pulled a scroll out of her leather pouch and
laid it on the wound between her hand and his chest. "Naosu kokan"
Kagome closed her eyes and felt the heat travel down her arm.
"What's she doing?" Shippou asked. Miroku looked up from what he was
doing with some nearby healing roots and such to see Kagome start to
glow with a strange aura. Miroku realized what she was doing and
tried to push her away. A great energy threw him back against a tree,
and he decided that it was best for him not to interfere.
"I think she's trying to heal him." Miroku answered solemnly. Shippou
gaped and watched as Kagome started to glow brighter.
Kagome kept her focus on healing. Inuyasha's body become warm under
the scroll; she could feel the wound start to shrink and the blood
start to flow again. The scroll and her hand were quickly covered in
blood. Inuyasha's breaths became more regular and less haggard. Her
own, conversely, became worse as she and the scroll took on part of
Inuyasha's injuries. She gave all of the burning to the scroll and
the scroll incinerated before she could take on even a third of the
other injuries. Her own blood started to seep through her kimono and
she fell on top of Inuyasha. Miroku decided that it was probably safe
now and ran over to help. Kagome and Inuyasha were both only barely
unconscious, so he laid Kagome out flat next to Inuyasha. Sango
returned and told Miroku that there was a stream just north of there.
"How far?" he asked. Sango looked down at the two bleeding people and
said,
"Oh, about a mile. And didn't I leave you with one beaten and
bloodied person? Cause' I see two here buster."
"Oh, just shut up and help me get them on Kirara." Miroku snipped. He
wasn't in the mood. The three healthy people lugged the unconscious
onto Kirara. They started walking north, nobody wanted to talk
because they were worried about Kagome and Inuyasha. After a little
while though, Shippou spoke up.
"Do you think they're going to be alright?" Shippou asked. A worried
look scrunched his face up and his voice squeaked slightly.
"Yeah, they should be up and at 'em in a week or so." Sango tried to
sound cheery about it, but in truth she was very worried about the
Jewel. Would Sesshoumaru have found it by then? There was no way to
tell, but she didn't write off the youkai as any kind of fool,
either.
"I guess we can only hope that Hojo knows to keep his mouth shut for
a very long time." Miroku said darkly. Sango guessed that he had been
thinking along the same lines as she had. Sango laughed.
"He'd do anything to protect the Jewel, you know that Miroku."
"More like protect the Priestess." Miroku laughed.
"I'll bet he's smarter than we give him credit for." Shippou
commented off-handedly. Sango and Miroku looked at him. "Wha-at?" he
whined. Wasn't he allowed to defend Kagome's cousin? Sheesh…
"Don't do that again." Sango said, looking away.
"Yeah," Miroku agreed "you're too young to be that mature about
this."
"Way too young." Sang agreed, looking at Miroku. Miroku looked at her
and smiled, she smiled back.
"You guys are too weird…" the kitsune shook his head. Kirara snorted
her agreement.
"Just one question you guys." Shippou raised an eyebrow.
"What?" Sango looked at him and raised her own.
"If we were walking the wrong way for at least two days," he looked
frustratedly at each of the idiots "then where the hell are we?"
"Shut up." Miroku and Sango said in unison. Damn that kitsune could
get annoying, but where WERE they?
A/n: Dun-dun-dun! Okay, that wasn't really a cliffhanger, so sue me.
Although, as you can see from the top, you can't! Bwahahahahaha!
Any-who, I'd like to dedicate this chapter to my reviewers, who were
supportive of my story thus far: Hieis2dreamer for giving my
one-chapter fic a chance and continuing to review and prod me to
write more; Kagomebunny for being nice and reviewing my story to tell
me to write more; for Raku Ozzarian princess for taking the time to
read and review my fic; and narcoleptic shiskabob who helped me with
great long reviews that made me laugh, adding me to her fav. authors
list, and for helping me with other story-related stuff. I couldn't
have even gotten this far w/out you guys! Keep up the good reviews
and I promise I'll finish this one good (I know it's supposed to be
"well" but who really cares?)! I love you guys and e-mail me if you
have any suggestions! Thanks!
*Mwah*
mumu
Key
Ofuda: the scroll Miroku uses in the manga
Naosu kokan: "healing exchange"
Shinsei Makimono: Literally translates to "Sacred Scroll"
a minor, so I don't think I can really technically own anything yet,
or likewise be sued! Cool! So instead of just saying I own Inuyasha,
I can say I own… Rumiko herself! Bwahahaha! Now she can write all of
my fics for me! Okay, just kidding…whatever. On with the fic
containing characters that I don't own! Yay.
(A/n: Key at bottom for the literal translations of the spells that
Miroku and Kagome use! Thanks!"
Naosu Kokan
The sky rippled above their heads and the barriers of the demon soon
became apparent to reach over a diameter of about a quarter of a
mile.
"That is one big-assed demon" Sango commented before taking out her
boomerang and transforming from
a beautiful woman into a deadly demon slayer.
"Kirara!" Sango yelled and she leapt aboard her also transformed
kitten. Miroku and Kagome weren't going to just sit back and watch,
no sir, these two mere mortals each possessed more than mere mortal
powers. Which was always definitely helpful in a demonic fight.
"Ofuda!" Miroku yelled as he slipped out a demon-fighting scroll from
his leather pouch and threw it at the demon. At the same time Kagome
drew back an arrow and aimed high at the sky. All three weapons:
Sango's boomerang, Miroku's scroll, and Kagome's blessed arrow all
hit the sky at once. The sky shattered, like it was metal hitting
glass; leaving the core of the demon, hanging suspended in the sky
above them. It appeared like the sun, but became darker in its
angered state. The rays from the sun licked angrily and sizzled the
air around it. The rays became more and more visible and less and
less like the real sun's that was just peaking over the horizon
behind the demon.
"DON'T BOTHER WITH THE SKY," the demon laughed softly "IT'S ONLY AN
ILLUSION OF MINE. THE REAL FIGHT, YOU HAVE WITH ME."
"Demon! What business do you have leading us off of our path?" Kagome
asked "I mean, what the heck do you have against us, or where we're
going?"
"THAT'S NONE OF YOUR CONCERN!" he yelled, and threw himself at
Inuyasha!
"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled in warning. Inuyasha looked up (from
probably looking at Sango and Kirara, he'd never seen a woman fight
like that before.) just in time to barely dodge the demon. His hair
sizzled and scorched at the ends and the smell of burnt hair filled
his nose. Inuyasha jumped at the demon and swiped with his claws, but
it was like a ball of fire. The flesh around his claws and all over
his hand began to melt, sizzle and char.
"Huh?" He looked at his hand in confusion. This hadn't seemed like a
particularly strong demon, but impossible to hit.
"Inuyasha, you dumbass," Kagome yelled "use Tetsusaiga!"
"Oh yeah…" Inuyasha blushed slightly and drew his sword. "Burn this,
bastard!" He yelled as he caught the wind on the blade and swung the
sword as hard as he could. The cutting wind passed through the top
half of the gaseous demon and it belched out a hardy laugh.
"IF YOU'RE CLAWS DIDN'T WORK EITHER, HANYOU, WHY DID YOU THINK THAT
YOU'RE RUSTED SWORD WOULD DO ANY BETTER?" the demon laughed again.
"Oh no…" Kagome said, feeling helpless. What were they supposed to
do? She didn't know, but there was no way she was going to sit around
and watch Inu get burnt to a crisp! "Shinsei Makimono!" Kagome yelled
as she jumped through the air and hurled the 'sacred scroll' at the
opposing demon. The scroll flew in its direction, but the demon
dodged it easily. "Damn," Kagome cursed, "I was too far away!" But
now she had found the demon's weakness! "Shippou! Become a bush and
hide me until we get closer to the demon!" Kagome grabbed the kitsune
and pleaded. "The kitsune complied and they crept towards the demon.
It was a good thing no one else seemed to notice…
"Okay! Let's fight fire with fire! Kirara!" Kirara let out a roar and
shot flame at the sun demon from her mouth. The demon just laughed
and absorbed the flames. "Dammit!" Sango yelled in frustration.
Wasn't there anything that was going to kill this demon? Meanwhile,
Inuyasha kept on at trying to cut it to pieces with his Tetsusaiga.
It wasn't working.
"Take that, bitch!" obviously he wasn't sure whether this thing was a
boy or a girl. All he knew was that it was pissing him off.
"ALL RIGHT, I THINK WE'VE HAD ENOUGH PLAY TIME. NOW IT'S TIME TO
FIGHT." The sun belched out. Suddenly, one of the rays of sun
extended and formed into a flaming sword, but without a handle. Its
base just melted into the other rays. It shot out and pierced
Inuyasha in the chest. Inuyasha could hear it rip first his kimono,
then his skin. The bone of his sternum made two sickening cracks as
the sharp fire shot through his chest. Once through, the sword
started to sizzle his skin and lung; the blood stopped flowing so
freely down his kimono as suddenly as it started. Inuyasha looked
down at it dumbly. Nothing had ever done something like this to him
before…
"It's killing him!" Miroku yelled.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome gasped. She knew what she had to do during this
little distraction, and had already started tying the scroll to one
of her arrows. She pulled back the sword and let it fly: strait
towards the center of the demon. "Please work, please work, please
work…" Kagome prayed. No demon could touch that sacred scroll and
live. Thank god she was a Priestess. The arrow flew through the first
half of the demon, but seemed to get lodged in the second half. The
red gaseous part of the demon seemed to disappear and black ball fell
out from the center and hit the ground about a hundred feet from
Kagome with a thud. Inuyasha fell down to the ground and lay there,
eyes closed.
"Inuyasha!" everyone yelled at once. They all ran up to him and
Kagome and Miroku fell to their knees and started taking off the top
of his Kimono. His breath was slow, haggard, and irregular.
"It looks pretty bad," Miroku stated solemnly "but I learned some
healing from my old monk teacher. Sango, I need you to find the
nearest stream and take us there."
"Right on it!" Sango and Kirara jumped to the sky and were soon out
of site looking for the stream. But Kagome was wasting no time in
healing Inuyasha. She pulled a scroll out of her leather pouch and
laid it on the wound between her hand and his chest. "Naosu kokan"
Kagome closed her eyes and felt the heat travel down her arm.
"What's she doing?" Shippou asked. Miroku looked up from what he was
doing with some nearby healing roots and such to see Kagome start to
glow with a strange aura. Miroku realized what she was doing and
tried to push her away. A great energy threw him back against a tree,
and he decided that it was best for him not to interfere.
"I think she's trying to heal him." Miroku answered solemnly. Shippou
gaped and watched as Kagome started to glow brighter.
Kagome kept her focus on healing. Inuyasha's body become warm under
the scroll; she could feel the wound start to shrink and the blood
start to flow again. The scroll and her hand were quickly covered in
blood. Inuyasha's breaths became more regular and less haggard. Her
own, conversely, became worse as she and the scroll took on part of
Inuyasha's injuries. She gave all of the burning to the scroll and
the scroll incinerated before she could take on even a third of the
other injuries. Her own blood started to seep through her kimono and
she fell on top of Inuyasha. Miroku decided that it was probably safe
now and ran over to help. Kagome and Inuyasha were both only barely
unconscious, so he laid Kagome out flat next to Inuyasha. Sango
returned and told Miroku that there was a stream just north of there.
"How far?" he asked. Sango looked down at the two bleeding people and
said,
"Oh, about a mile. And didn't I leave you with one beaten and
bloodied person? Cause' I see two here buster."
"Oh, just shut up and help me get them on Kirara." Miroku snipped. He
wasn't in the mood. The three healthy people lugged the unconscious
onto Kirara. They started walking north, nobody wanted to talk
because they were worried about Kagome and Inuyasha. After a little
while though, Shippou spoke up.
"Do you think they're going to be alright?" Shippou asked. A worried
look scrunched his face up and his voice squeaked slightly.
"Yeah, they should be up and at 'em in a week or so." Sango tried to
sound cheery about it, but in truth she was very worried about the
Jewel. Would Sesshoumaru have found it by then? There was no way to
tell, but she didn't write off the youkai as any kind of fool,
either.
"I guess we can only hope that Hojo knows to keep his mouth shut for
a very long time." Miroku said darkly. Sango guessed that he had been
thinking along the same lines as she had. Sango laughed.
"He'd do anything to protect the Jewel, you know that Miroku."
"More like protect the Priestess." Miroku laughed.
"I'll bet he's smarter than we give him credit for." Shippou
commented off-handedly. Sango and Miroku looked at him. "Wha-at?" he
whined. Wasn't he allowed to defend Kagome's cousin? Sheesh…
"Don't do that again." Sango said, looking away.
"Yeah," Miroku agreed "you're too young to be that mature about
this."
"Way too young." Sang agreed, looking at Miroku. Miroku looked at her
and smiled, she smiled back.
"You guys are too weird…" the kitsune shook his head. Kirara snorted
her agreement.
"Just one question you guys." Shippou raised an eyebrow.
"What?" Sango looked at him and raised her own.
"If we were walking the wrong way for at least two days," he looked
frustratedly at each of the idiots "then where the hell are we?"
"Shut up." Miroku and Sango said in unison. Damn that kitsune could
get annoying, but where WERE they?
A/n: Dun-dun-dun! Okay, that wasn't really a cliffhanger, so sue me.
Although, as you can see from the top, you can't! Bwahahahahaha!
Any-who, I'd like to dedicate this chapter to my reviewers, who were
supportive of my story thus far: Hieis2dreamer for giving my
one-chapter fic a chance and continuing to review and prod me to
write more; Kagomebunny for being nice and reviewing my story to tell
me to write more; for Raku Ozzarian princess for taking the time to
read and review my fic; and narcoleptic shiskabob who helped me with
great long reviews that made me laugh, adding me to her fav. authors
list, and for helping me with other story-related stuff. I couldn't
have even gotten this far w/out you guys! Keep up the good reviews
and I promise I'll finish this one good (I know it's supposed to be
"well" but who really cares?)! I love you guys and e-mail me if you
have any suggestions! Thanks!
*Mwah*
mumu
Key
Ofuda: the scroll Miroku uses in the manga
Naosu kokan: "healing exchange"
Shinsei Makimono: Literally translates to "Sacred Scroll"
